China Guardian Auctions 2021 Autumn Auction Shanghai Boutique Exhibition was held on October 20 and 21 at the St. Regis Hotel, 1008 Beijing West Road, Shanghai. In the fine exhibition, there is a Qing Dynasty painter Yun Shouping's "Landscape and Flower Album" (ten open), known as the "boneless god" in the history of Chinese art (the boneless method is the technique of directly painting with color in Chinese painting, without ink and pen to erect bones), Yun Shouping is also praised by Mr. Wu Hufan, a modern connoisseur, as the first person in the history of Chinese flowers and birds as "unprecedented". Moreover, Yun Shouping's life experience is very legendary, and even at that time, it was compiled into a play "Vulture Peak Edge" (unfortunately, the script was lost in the late Qing Dynasty). Now let's take a look at the legendary painter's "boneless god".
Between the autumn and winter of the eighteenth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1679), Wang Shimin wrote a letter to Wang Yi and invited him and Yun Shouping to come to their home to watch a play. The letter reads: "Recently, the fifth child has performed a new drama of "Vulture Peak Edge" for His uncle Zheng, and it seems that the people's transmission habits can also be observed. However, the affair was slightly whitewashed, and Uncle Su Zheng came to agree on it, and also instigated to come to you for a while. "The gist is that my fifth son, Wang Shu, has written a new play for Yun Shouping, rehearsed it fairly, and some of the content must be agreed upon by himself, and he will come to Taicang for a visit by the way."
■ Letters from Wang Shimin inviting Wang Yi and Yun Shouping
Wang Shimin and Yun Shouping had been exchanging letters, but they had never met. This invitation, Yun Shouping and Wang Yi did not make the trip. On June 9, the nineteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1680), Yun Shouping finally arrived in Taicang, and Wang Shimin was terminally ill and could not say a word, and died eight days later. Yun Shouping stayed in Wang Jiabang for three years, singing and singing with friends, traveling with companions, and also went to Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, and also observed the calligraphy and painting collection of the Wang family and friends.
■ Yun Shouping's "Landscape and Flower Album" album (ten open) Ink and coloring paper
China Guardian's 2021 autumn auction will appear in a "boneless god product" Yun Shouping's "Landscape and Flower Album", Huang Peng, a researcher at the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting, highlighted the importance of Taicang's three years for Yun Shouping when studying and observing this work:
After the death of Wang Shimin in the nineteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (Gengshen year), Wang Tuan invited Yun Shouping to stay in his home for nearly three years. At this time, Yun Shouping did not have to run for his livelihood at all, and lived a relatively comfortable life, he often studied painting with Wang Yi and other painters, immersed in the atmosphere of pseudo-ancient style. I think the real peak of Yun Shouping's creation was the period from the time he returned home from Taicang until his death. ”
Yun Shouping (1633-1690)
Landscape flower book
Album (10 open) Ink, colored on paper
Written by Koshi (1684)
Size: 23.50×36.50cm (each)
Inscription: (1) A thousand trees of red light a fishing wire, lonely yin only biyun knows. But he laughed at the non-Bear Creek Shangsuo, and the white head was like an imperial master. Quasi-Zhao Boju Flower Creek fishing boat.
(2) Linchi fish algae. Pro Liu Yu Ben.
(3) Delicate spring and double beauty. Amaranth Museum System.
(4) The square pot is sprinkled with intent, rotten and innocent, stripped of the machi, beyond the image, and the dragon of the painter is also a change. Nantianke.
(5) Blow off qiong zhen throat phoenix dust, powder marks dark mirror spring. Low-hanging green sleeves red makeup side, dancing tired dragon silk a beauty. Shouping.
(6) Nephrite jade fell before the wind, and the long strip was powerless to tie the residual spring. The brocade machine is not a melancholy weaving, empty convection Huang Yi beauty. Shouping.
(7) If you listen to it after the rain on an empty mountain, the wind blows down half a curtain of green. Wait for him to be three feet of liang garden snow, transformed into Yaotian white phoenix plume. Lin'ou Bo old man Lang Yue spring color.
(8) Linxu Chongsi Spring Wind Map. Nantian.
(ix) The black magpie will perch, and the smoke of the stream will go up. Where the sound of autumn rises, the wind is on the highest branches. Olive Cao Yun West Wind Forest Evening Crow. Shouping.
(10) Ten kinds of Koshi Spring March Nantian Shouping Quasi-Ancient.
Seals: Nantian Caoyi (second time), Shouping (three times), Shuzi (second time), Shou Ping, Zheng Shu (second time), Shou Ping, Nan Tian Xiao Yin, Yun Zheng Shu (second time), Shou Ping No Yin, Yun Shou Ping
Jianzang Seal: The Collection of Song Ge (Ten Times), Tao An Jing Eye Golden Stone Calligraphy and Painting, Love Painting into the Bone Marrow, Tao An Heart Appreciation
Wu Hufan title back page: Yi Hai (1935) autumn day, borrowed from Mr. Tao An to meijing bookstore. Wu Hufan Pan Jingshu came together with a book and was blessed with eyes. Seal: Wu Hufan, Jing Shu Calligraphy and Painting, Meijing Bookstore
Chu Deyi inscription: Yun Nantian landscape flower divine product. Tao An Treasure Secret. Xin Wei (1941) summer, pine window. Plutonium Seal: Chu De Yi Seal
publication:
1. "Yun Nantian Flowers", Duo Yunxuan, 1961. (Woodblock watermark peony, plum, peach blossom, hydrangea blossom)
2. "Orthodox Painting School of the Early Qing Dynasty", Figure 126, Figure 127, Art Book Company, 1985.
3. "Yun Nantian Painting Style", Figure 71, Figure 72, Chongqing Publishing House, 1995.
4. "The Art of Watermarking woodblocks in Duoyunxuan", Figure 195, Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, 1997.
5. "Catalogue of Ancient Calligraphy and Paintings" (III), pp. 214-234, Great Wall Publishing House, 2003.
6. "YunNantian Landscape and Flower Divine Products", Xiling Printing Press, 2008.
7. "Chinese Flower and Bird Painting Tongjian and Sketching Authentic", pp. 46-49, Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, 2008.
The "Landscape and Flower Album" consists of ten openings, written in the twenty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1684), when Yun Shou was 52 years old, and it is a divine work he painted after returning to Changzhou from Taicang.
Legendary life
It eventually became the "Landscape and Flower Album" of elegance
Time pushed back to the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), the 15-year-old Yun Shouping joined the rebel army led by Wang Qi with his father Yun Richu. During the attack on Pucheng, Yun Shouping's eldest brother Yun Zhen was killed. The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Chen Jin, led an army to besiege, the rebels were defeated, and Wang Qi set himself on fire. The father and son of the Yun family participated in the battle to defend the city, and after the city was destroyed, the Qing army slaughtered the city, the second brother Yun Huan disappeared, and Yun Shouping was captured.
Yun Shouping is in prison, and an old acquaintance recommended him to Chen Jin's wife to paint jewelry molds. Lady Chen was childless, and when she saw that Yun Shouping was handsome and calm, she was overjoyed and adopted him as her adopted son. Yun Richu searched for Yun Shouping all the way and arrived in Hangzhou, knowing that his son had become the adopted son of the Governor's Palace. After inquiring, it was learned that Chen Jin relied heavily on the senior monk of the Lingyin Temple, so he entered the monastery as a monk and waited for the opportunity to recognize him.
In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1653), Zheng Chenggong besieged Zhangzhou, Chen Jin led the army to battle, and on July 7, he was stabbed to death by his entourage. When Lady Chen took Yun Shouping to the funeral and passed through the Lingyin Temple, Lady Chen funded a big ceremony. Yun Shouping found his father Yun Richu in the temple, yun Shouping wanted to recognize his father, but did not dare to move forward, so he secretly agreed to meet.
The two met, hugged and cried, ready to find an opportunity to escape. In the end, the monk Kude came forward and told Lady Chen that this son's life was short, and only if he became a monk could he live a long life. Lady Chen refused to agree, her husband was dead, she was very dependent on her adopted son, and wanted him to enter Beijing to inherit Chen Jin's title. Yun Shouping knelt down to Lady Chen and said that he was willing to give up his wealth. When Mrs. Chen saw that her adopted son had made up her mind, she had no choice but to cry and leave.
The above is the legendary experience of Yun Shouping's early years, which Wang Shu used as a background to adapt it into "Vulture Peak Edge" in the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1679). Wang Shimin invited Wang Yi and Yun Shouping to come to Taicang to watch the drama, but the two failed to go. In June of the nineteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1680), Yun Shouping arrived in Taicang and met Wang Shimin, who was ill, who could no longer speak and died eight days later. Yun Shouping stayed in Taicang at the invitation of Wang Shimin's sons Wang Shu ( Wang Ji , Wang Tuan , and Wang Yi ) , and lived there for three years.
In the past three years, Yun Shouping sang harmony and traveled with friends. During this period, "Vulture Peak Edge" was rehearsed in Taicang Tsururai Hall. When he was a guest, Yun Shouping also observed the masterpieces collected by the Wang family. In the twenty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1682), he borrowed and copied Wang Shimin's old collection of Ma Yuan's "Fishing Boat Map of the Qingjiang River".
■ Yun Shouping's "Landscape and Flower Album" album (10 open) Ink and coloring paper (partial)
In the spring of the twenty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1683), Wang Tuan wanted to return to Beijing, but Yun Shouping did not want to accompany him, so he returned to Changzhou with his family, and the "Landscape and Flower Album" was written in the second year of his return to his hometown. In the first month of this year (1684), Yun Shouping painted "A Bamboo Zhai Tu" (collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing) for the Changzhou collector Tang Yu shoulder, and went to Yixing Wu's Nanyue Mountain Villa to paint "Ten Kinds of Ancient Chinese In the Ancient Records" (written in the "Records of the Ancient Edge", Volume IX); in March, he imitated the Song Dynasty Liu Yu's painting "Diagram of The Swimming Fish of the Algae" and drew this "Landscape and Flower Album".
The "Landscape and Flower Album" has a total of ten openings, and the five open landscapes are "Quasi-Zhao Boju Huaxi Fishing Boat", "Linliu Yulin Pond Fish Algae", "Linzhao Mengfu Bamboo Stone", "Imitation Fang Congyiyun Mountain Map", "Fu Cao Zhi Bai Evening Crow Map"; the five-opened flowers are "Hydrangeas, Butterfly Flowers", "Peony", "Moon Season", "Peach Blossom", "Lamei", which is the most exquisite work of Yun Shouping's art to reach its heyday.
The National Palace Museum in Taipei has a collection of Yun Shouping's "Flower Album", a total of eight openings, painting peonies, peach blossoms, morning glory, lotus flowers, grapes, wild ducks, chrysanthemums, plums and southern bamboo. According to the settlement, this one was also made in March of the twenty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1684) at the Amaranth Pavilion, which can be mutually verified with the "Landscape and Flower Album".
■ Part of Yun Shouping's "Flower Album" (1684) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The "Flower Book" has its own title: "Painting must enter the ancient law, and only by wanton can it fall off the time path and wash the hair with new interest." The art of sketching, that is, taking the ancients as a teacher is not perfect, it will be the creation of the master model, and the shu ji ji yan will be exhausted, and it will be the sect of great elegance. It is most appropriate to describe the "Landscape and Flower Album" with this passage, and the "Landscape and Flower Album" is a well-deserved "Daya Sect".
Ancient sketches, original and original
Landscape and flowers are a perfect combination
According to Yang Jin, a disciple of Wang Yi, Yun Shouping was extremely fascinated when he observed the objects of his sketches: "When he sees a flower painted on a daily basis, he will fold it into a flower, insert it in a vase, and try his best to describe it, and then he will get his vivid fragrance and vivid color." It can be known that Mr. Can take creation as a teacher, and not be bound to the ancients to become the Fa. ”
"Landscape and Flower Album" has a total of ten openings, there are imitations of the ancient, there are also sketches, Yun Shouping studied Xu Chongsi, Zhao Boju, Liu Yu, Zhao Mengfu, Fang Congyi, these painters are also yun Shouping's many imitations.
■ Yun Shouping's "Landscape and Flower Album" Album (10 open) Ink and color on paper "Quasi-Zhao Boju Huaxi Fishing Boat"
"Quasi-Zhao Boju Huaxi Fishing Boat" is elegant in color, without a trace of tackiness, and the color is used just right, which is very dreamy. In 1951, Wu Hufan wrote "Yupu Peach Blossom Map" (Duoyunxuan Old Collection), claiming to be a teacher Of Dongyuan, looking at its composition, or imitating the opening of "Huaxi Fishing Boat".
■ Yun Shouping "Landscape and Flower Album" Album (10 open) Ink and coloring paper "Linliu Yulin Pond Fish Algae"
■ Liu Zi's "Falling Flowers and Swimming Fish" Part of the Collection of the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, USA
"Linliu Yu Linchi Fish Algae" imitates the Northern Song Dynasty painter Liu Yu, swimming fish lively, ink blending, the so-called "easy to get the brushwork, get the ink method is difficult." It is easy to get ink, but it is difficult to get water. ”
■ Yun Shouping "Landscape and Flower Album" Album (10 open) Ink and coloring paper "Imitation Fang Congyiyun Mountain Map"
"Imitation Fang from Yiyun Mountain Map" Ming Xiu is empty and has a unique divine taste, and the third opening of yun Shouping's "Landscape Album" in the National Palace Museum in Taipei is "Imitation Fang Huyun Mountain Ink Play", and the composition is similar to this. Yun Shouping had a deeper understanding of Congyi's paintings: "The square pot splashed ink without seeking anything like it, and claimed to be the sole right to create, so that Zhen Zai wanted to cry." There is no such realm in the universe. "It can be seen that his weather is so great.
■ Yun Shouping's "Landscape and Flower Album" Album (10 open) Ink and coloring paper "Fu Cao Zhi White Evening Crow Diagram"
"Fu Cao Zhi Bai Evening Crow Diagram" pen and ink is simple and desolate, and it is like an outside interest.
■ Yun Shouping "Landscape and Flower Album" Album (10 open) Ink and coloring paper "Linzhao Mengfu Bamboo Stone"
"Linzhao Mengfu Bamboo Stone" from the divine interest, ethereal and exquisite, the love of the view can not be explained.
■ Yun Shouping"Landscape and Flower Album" Album (10 open) Ink and coloring paper "Linxu Chongsi Spring Wind Map"
"Linxu Chongsi Spring Wind Map" is beautiful and colorful, elegant and graceful, and has a kind of anger. Yun Shouping claimed that the "boneless method" came from Xu Chongsi, which should be his strategy of "borrowing the past to open up the present". It is undeniable that his method of color giving has obtained the true meaning of the ancients, Fang Xuan's "Treatise on The Painting of Mountain Tranquility", which says: "Ancient paintings are all re-set powder, chalk is dyed from the tip of the petal, once the skin is not even, and it is stained again, so the flower head is round and not thin, and then the fat is dyed from the root of the petal, that is, the fat juice is also colored by the thickness of the powder." The Nanda Clan got this trick, and many people did not notice it. ”
Dai Xi, who claimed to be a "disciple of Nantian Caoyi Private Shu", pointed out the magic of Yun Shouping's painting in "Xi Kuai Painting Silk": "It is easy to be dense and difficult; it is easy to be calm, it is difficult to be ethereal; it is easy to be like the ancients, it is difficult to be like me." Knowing these three difficulties, Fang knows the wonders of Nantian. "The "Landscape and Flower Album" is full of the wonders of creation, wonderful ancient and modern, the title is also commensurate, the calligraphy and painting are excellent, and it is a superior work of Yun Shouping in his later years. This autumn's blockbuster work appeared on the shooting scene, which is worth looking forward to.
Source: Thoughtful